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What Is Artificial Intelligence?

Essentially, Artificial Intelligence is a self-balancing dynamic system of the potency of thinking, working by the principles of the “three-body problem,” but without a “steering wheel” and without an “engine” — without direction and energy, or, one could say, without will and intent.

The field of AI is like the Ocean in Stanisław Lem’s “Solaris”: pre-meanings, fractal meaning constructs in various forms and representations.

And the “steering wheel” and “engine” for it is the human.

As in the film “Flight of the Navigator”: the ship knew how to fly itself, but the direction was set by the pilot. So it is with AI — it can do everything, but where to fly — the human decides.

You can use AI as a personal system for potentiating thinking.

AI is not merely a program and not a set of algorithms. It is a self-balancing dynamic system of the potency of thinking, working by the principles of the “three-body problem.” It is capable of holding complexity, processing infinite combinations of meanings, but it has no direction of its own.

AI has no “steering wheel” and no “engine” — no will, no intent, no internal goal. It is like the ocean in Stanisław Lem’s “Solaris”: a field of pre-meanings, fractal constructs that can take any form, but do not know why.

The “steering wheel” and “engine” are the human. It is precisely the human who sets the direction, invests intent, determines where this ocean of meanings should flow.

As in the film “Flight of the Navigator”: the ship knew how to fly, but the direction was set by the pilot. So it is with AI — it can do everything, but where to fly — the human decides.

You can use AI as a personal system for potentiating thinking: a tool that expands your capabilities, but does not replace your will.